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| Last year Max added his safari people to the nativity scene.(And some new animals) |
November is here. Yes, I am slow to recognize this, 12 days after the fact. The view outside my window (at this moment...who knows what tomorrow will bring. Texas is unpredictable) is grey and dark and cold.The trees behind our home are becoming naked and shivery looking. For the first time it is beginning to feel like summer is really over.
I played Christmas music yesterday. I do not care about the "rules" that our Facebook feeds keep spouting regarding waiting until Thanksgiving is over to talk about Christmas.
Why is it so awful? Can't I be thankful and excited about Christmas at the same time? My brain is pretty good at multi-tasking. I am perfectly capable of making Christmas plans while thanking God for all we have and share.
I usually use the day after Thanksgiving as my home decoration day instead of joining the shopping craziness. But there is something about this year that is tempting me to climb that weird little pull-down stairway thingy (that always remind me of Home Alone) out in the garage and get our decoration boxes down now.
Maybe it is because the news and Internet is so full of garbage and awfulness. As a nation we need some smiles, don't we?
Or most likely, it is because one week ago our family welcomed a brand new granddaughter. My ridiculously adorable and funny grandson just turned 3 years old a few weeks ago and oh my goodness is Christmas going to be fun??? They are all staying with us for a while and we are once again a toy and baby paraphernalia scattered home.
Holiday decorations take on a completely different dimension and meaning when little people are involved. I hear my grown sons get mushy and nostalgic over odd little holiday items and traditions and it reminds me that parents are in the memory making business. Whether we mean to or not.
So even though we are still several days away from Thanksgiving, I am looking around my home and deciding where the Christmas tree should go this year and wondering if Max will care about my little light up houses or the nativity scenes the most. I definitely want to pull out the ceramic trees my mom made, even though I am missing a few light bulbs on them. Oh, we need a new stocking too!!
November is only 12 days old. But I am humming Christmas carols while I set up Thanksgiving art projects for my preschool class. (How many ways can 18 4 year olds make a turkey? Literally hundreds!)
I am thankful for Christmas and Christmas gave me the One who I am thanking. So it all works together, right?
Happy Thanksgiving AND Merry Christmas!
susie
1 comment:
Okay, since you put it THAT way...go ahead and sing Christmas carols and think about Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving...but don't forget the pilgrims and the pumpkins and the turkeys...and the Thanks-giving...which you are doing very nicely already, by the way. I'm having a hard time getting my head around any of it right now. I am still in post wedding decompression...and if someone said let's just skip it this year I might be tempted...but then again...I do want to welcome our new daughter in law to partake in our family traditions and I don't want to set any new precedents for leaving out the important stuff that our kids depend upon...because you are right about how we have made memories for our kids who are now grown up and expect things to continue on...I would love to be a bug on the wall of your house with your precious little family there and you just beaming and enjoying it all. So happy for you. God has truly blessed...and we should thank the ONE Who made it all possible!! Amen!!
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